c4 English Cathedrals "
Stir,—Reading the review of English Cathedrals in your Issue of July 28th, I was indeed surprised at your reviewer's remarks. Surely English publications on the great cathedrals of this country exist in quantity and quality and English publishers have not " left it to the collaboration of a Swiss photographer and Swiss scholar." As I write I am looking at a volume on Lincoln Cathedral which presents in its pages not less than seventy excellently large illustrations, and surely Mr. G. H. Cook, the author, is the expositor of " the rationale of English Gothic" for whom Mr. Whiffen calls. I understand that four volumes in his series have already been published and that on four subjects only they contain no less than 286 pictures of English cathedrals, whereas the book which you review purports to cover sixteen English cathedrals in 160 photographs. I.am afraid that your reviewer' has fallen into the bad habit of assuming that a foreign view of our native architecture must ipso facto be .a superior one. Agreed that the series I mention is not yet complete, but it presumably will be, and some credit should be given to its ploddia Englishness and its enterprise recorded—Sincerely yours, Hughenden Cottage, High Wycombe, Bucks. JOHN Mrrcuar,
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